Tuesday 27 May 2008
Spelling or speling
i red a hedline in the paper the other day that sed that harf of londoners cahnt spel. but who counted them, and what dus it matter. After all if inconsistent speling was good enuff for shakespeer then who are we to fuss. It didnt stop him being famus and he had servral ways of speling his naym anyway. And i bet you hav understud every word that i hav written so fah. i was very good in skul at thre things - spelin, tabuls and ireggular french verbs. mi lak of understanding evrything els has not been of toooo grate a hindranz. we used to talk about area and the only area i no anything about is the one around our house which has to be cleened up from time to time. I new french verbs and cud make a reesonabul attempt at speking the french langwidge but all the french verbs in the wurld cudnt help me to understand what they prattled on in reply. It was a gud job the g.l. cud. however i am puzzld by won thing. the shops abound with puzzul buks and crosswords and things needing you to be abul to spel to get the ansers rite. if so many peepul are bad at speling how cum they sel al theses buks, eh, tel me that, wise guys. or is that why sudoku is so popular becos it has no words - but then how many are good with numbers...arent we suposed to be even worse with them.
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Shakespeare spelt his name in different ways because the English language had not become standardised in terms of spelling. Because that standardisation has now taken place, poor spelling shows that the writer is either ignorant or affectatious (you are neither, of course, as you are deliberately mispelling in order to make a point).
While I can understand everything you write, I can also say that your mode of writing looks unprofessional. Or would, if you employed that style in a job application or letter. If for no other reason, that is why people should learn to spell.
BTW: Re: Frwench verbs.
eimi, ei, esti(n), esmen, este, eisti(n) ~ my first Greek verb! (to be w/out the infinitive though!)
I know perfectly well re Shakespeare but humour takes liberties! Not that people always speak according to the spelling, for how often does one hear the word 'reguly' for regularly and 'Febury' for 'February' - a word I naturally have a particular interest in! Mind you, is spelling any more - or less - important than good grammar? In your second paragraph regarding style, there are two most ungrammatically constructed sentences. Can you spot them, and give a reason in each case, why they are ungrammatical? Well done, meanwhile re the Greek - I would have read it more easily in Greek lettering!
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